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Show BACK FROM OHICAC0. .Mor llasln.ss. Hnr. llu.tl. Mr Mrii M-r llml than aor City in ttia vt orlil. Jude Watupler ix ho has been lead-lug lead-lug one continual round of pleas tie, slopping at the Auditorium hotel in Chicago for the past mouth, had his feet up on one of the radiators in the Knutsford this morning. The judge speaking of Chicago said: "There is no place like Chicago (except (ex-cept Salt Lake). It is the greatest city in the world by long odds. Lays over New York and Ogduu just like one slap jack lays over another. Say! they have got more business ana bustle, more brains aud more be id iu that town than any little place I ever was in. You can't lind a single man living there who wouldn't swear that Chicago is the monetary, commercial, business, manufacturing manu-facturing and health metropolis of the whole world. "They arc putting up G sixteen-story buildings now and there is no telling how much higher thoy will be built in the next fexv years. Everything is booming in anticipation of the World's fair, and real estate has scored an enormous enor-mous advance in the last six months. Those xv ho have cubsdiibed to the World's fair subsidy are counting up with their money as fast as it is due like trained pigs. This means that iW,Oi)0,000 is to be expended their before be-fore the fair opens and added to it is the fsuo.ooo appropriated by the state of Illinois is giving all kinds of business a wonderful impetus." Excavations are being made for the buildings, for the fairiu Jackson l'ark now aud some of the foreign exhibits are already arriving. There is a great (leal of interest being taken in Salt Lake by Chicago moniud men and Mr. ampler thought if real ettale men here would only try, they could obtain all tha cheap money they wanted to loan on Salt Lake real cs'tale. Iu passing through Omaha on his way home, he saw a tree cut in King county, Washington, which was being sent to the exposition, that was 11'. feet long anil would square four feet ten inches at the small end, it was the longest stick of timber ever loaded oa a train. |